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06/23/2026

You would never make a major capital investment without defining what a successful return looks like. So why do you do it every time you hire someone?

Human capital is the biggest expense in most businesses. And yet almost nobody looks at people through an ROI lens or gets clear on what a successful return actually looks like for each person in each seat.

In this conversation with Cameron Herold, Next Level Growth Founder Michael Erath teaches the concept that closes that gap. The Most Critical Outcome, one sentence that defines the single most measurable result a person must deliver to prove they are the right person in that seat. It tells the person in the role exactly what winning looks like. It gives leaders something concrete to coach to. And it stops the cycle of tolerating underperformance because the standard was never clear enough to hold anyone to.

If you cannot define the Most Critical Outcome for every seat in your organization right now, this book belongs on your desk. Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations. Available on Amazon and Audible. Link in the first comment.

06/18/2026

Most leadership teams are not missing a strategy. They are missing a rhythm.

Joe Mauldin, VP of Sales at FutureVu Brands, describes the single biggest outcome from working with Next Level Growth Business Guide Chris Prenovost. Not the annual plan. Not the quarterly priorities. The weekly meeting.

Clear ownership. Defined responsibilities. Short-term commitments separated from longer-term priorities. That structure, maintained with discipline every single week, was the most impactful change out of the gate.

Most organizations have meetings. Very few have meetings that actually move the needle with intention and accountability every week. The difference is not effort. It is design.

If your organization is still waiting for the clarity that should be coming from a consistent weekly rhythm, the Elite Organizations Assessment will show you where the structure is missing. 7 minutes. Free.

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There is a version of success that quietly becomes a trap.The business grows. The revenue goes up. And somewhere along t...
06/17/2026

There is a version of success that quietly becomes a trap.

The business grows. The revenue goes up. And somewhere along the way the founder becomes the one thing the entire organization cannot function without. Not because they chose that. Because nobody ever built the structure that would have made it unnecessary.

The exhausting part is not the work. It is the weight of knowing that if you stepped away for a week, things would start to unravel.

That everything significant still runs through you. That the business is performing at the ceiling of what you personally can hold together.

That is not a motivation problem. It is an architectural one. And it has a structural path out.

This carousel walks through the four patterns that reveal a founder-dependent business. If you recognize yourself in them, this month's blog goes deep on exactly what the rebuild requires.

Or if you want to know right now which pattern is costing you the most, the Elite Organizations Assessment will show you in 7 minutes. Free.

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06/16/2026

If you have ever woken up feeling like the entire business is resting on your shoulders and wondered how long you can keep carrying it, this one is for you.

Not the version of that feeling you talk about at a dinner party. The real version. The one where you are not sure you have the right people. Where ex*****on feels inconsistent no matter how hard you push. Where the goals keep moving but the momentum does not.

Next Level Growth Partner and Business Guide Scott Elser speaks directly to that in this clip. Not with a framework. Not with a pitch. With the kind of honesty that only comes from someone who has been in the room with hundreds of founders carrying exactly that weight.

If any of this landed, Scott is offering exactly what he describes in this clip. A real 90-minute conversation with a Guide. No pitch. No pressure. Just an honest look at where you are and what might be possible.

If you are ready for that conversation, reach out. Drop a comment or send us a message. No forms. No funnels. Just a real reply.

06/11/2026

One of the most expensive things a leader can feel is lost.

Not because they are not working hard. But because without a clear direction, effort gets scattered across everything that feels urgent and away from everything that actually moves the needle.

Pierson Roenke, Director of Mitigation at C&B Complete Cleaning & Construction, describes what that felt like before working with Next Level Growth Business Guide Chris Prenovost . Certain days with no true direction. A feeling of being lost. And the quiet drain of not knowing what to prioritize.

What changed was structure. Established quarterly priorities. A clear long-term vision. A framework that connects the big picture all the way down to one simple and powerful question: what should I be working on today?

That is not a small shift. When a leader knows the answer to that question with confidence, the way they show up, the way they lead their team, and the results the organization produces all change with it.

If you want to know whether your organization has the clarity and structure to answer that question at every level, the Elite Organizations Assessment will show you exactly where the gaps are. 7 minutes. Free.

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The work that builds something truly great rarely makes the highlight reel.It happens in rooms like this one. A leadersh...
06/10/2026

The work that builds something truly great rarely makes the highlight reel.

It happens in rooms like this one. A leadership team and their Next Level Growth Business Guide, working through the priorities, building the clarity, and making the decisions that move the organization forward with intention.

Next Level Growth Business Guide Scott Elser and the FOMAT team did exactly that. Dedicated, focused time to work on the business, not just in it. The kind of session that does not just create action items but creates alignment. The kind of work that compounds quietly until the results speak for themselves.

Proud of this team and the commitment they bring to every session. Keep Climbing, FOMAT.

If you want to know where your organization has the most opportunity to build that kind of clarity and alignment, the Elite Organizations Assessment will show you exactly where to focus. 7 minutes. Free.

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06/09/2026

Think about the last hard conversation you had with someone on your team. Did you walk in with a framework or did you wing it?

Most leaders wing it. They rely on good intentions, experience, and hope that the conversation goes the way they need it to.

Then there are leaders like the CFO who highlighted specific pages of the Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations and handed them to a direct report before a difficult conversation they were about to have. Not as inspiration. As a practical tool for navigating one of the hardest parts of leadership.

That is what it looks like when a book reaches the right person at the right time. It does not just get read. It gets applied. It becomes part of how a leader thinks through a hard moment, navigates a conversation they have been dreading, or coaches someone on their team who needs more than advice.

The conversations that shape organizations are rarely the easy ones. The leaders who handle them well are rarely winging it.

If you want the framework behind conversations like that, the Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations is where to start.

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Next Level Growth Founder Michael Erath was recently recognized by EO Arizona as the Ben Brooks YPO Gold Mentor of the Y...
06/04/2026

Next Level Growth Founder Michael Erath was recently recognized by EO Arizona as the Ben Brooks YPO Gold Mentor of the Year for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.

As a member of YPO Gold, Michael agreed to serve as a mentor to a younger entrepreneur in the EO Arizona community. What started as a commitment to give back turned into one of the most rewarding experiences he has had in a long time.

Michael has been an entrepreneur most of his life. He has scaled businesses, lost businesses, rebuilt from nothing, and found his way to a place where he gets to spend every day helping other leaders do the same. None of that would have been possible without the people who invested in him along the way, many of them through YPO and EO.

If you are a YPO or EO member who has not yet said yes to mentoring, let this be the nudge. The next generation of entrepreneurs in our community is exceptional. They are hungry, they are sharp, and they deserve the honest perspective that only real experience can provide.

Thank you to EO Arizona for this recognition. Congratulations, Michael. This one is well deserved.

06/03/2026

There is a version of running a business that never feels like leading it.

Every day starts with whatever the business needs from you. Every decision is urgent. Every problem is yours to solve. The work does not stop because you are not ahead of it. You are always behind it.

Travis Cormier, owner of Aethereal, describes what changed after working with Next Level Growth Business Guide Chris Prenovost in one word. Stable.

Not because the challenges went away. Because the systems to manage them were finally in place. When someone is out, the business does not hold its breath. When something breaks, there is a process for it. The emotional weight of running an organization that depends entirely on your presence starts to lift when the structure underneath it is built to hold things without you.

That shift from reactive to proactive is not a mindset change. It is a structural one.

If you want to know where your organization lacks the structure to absorb what you are currently carrying alone, the Elite Organizations Assessment will show you exactly where the gaps are. 7 minutes. Free.

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Somewhere around 6am on a Tuesday, before anyone else is up, you are already staring at your phone wondering how you are...
06/02/2026

Somewhere around 6am on a Tuesday, before anyone else is up, you are already staring at your phone wondering how you are going to get through another week.

You cannot say this out loud. You have crossed a threshold of success that makes complaining feel like a betrayal of everything you worked for.

But here is what nobody tells you. What you are feeling is not a personal failing. It is a structural problem. Founder burnout in the $5M to $50M range gets worse as the business grows, not better. The weight multiplies. The person carrying it does not.

The new blog discusses what is actually happening and what the path out looks like. Not mindset hacks. The structural truth most founders never get told.

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